Archive for June, 2009

Cash for Clunkers

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

The bill made it through congress about two weeks ago and has now been signed by Obama. The quick summary is that for cars, if it gets 18mpg or less you’ll get $4500 trade for anything getting 10mpg improvement. For trucks, that $4500 comes for a 5mpg improvement. Both have lower requirements which get $3500. [...]

Austin, TX Rev 6 or so

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Took off Monday evening for Texas to visit a customer for some development guidance and discussions. Hit work early Tuesday to bring up the latest revision of hardware. Had a couple false-issues – one with a temp sensor and another with a couple FETs on the board which I erroneously thought needed reversing. As it [...]

First Bumps of the Season

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Thursday Josh and I took a work trip out to visit Applinetics in Grand Haven. The trip was mainly to investigate developments in the coils and magnets we used. As usual, I’ll shy away from the details just in case people who shouldn’t see this do. Josh and I took boats with us, so afterward, [...]